Fact verification has attracted a lot of research attention recently, e.g., in journalism, marketing, and policymaking, as misinformation and disinformation online can sway one's opinion and affect one's actions. While fact-checking is a hard task in general, in many cases, false statements can be easily debunked based on analytics over tables with reliable information. Hence, table-based fact verification has recently emerged as an important and growing research area. Yet, progress has been limited due to the lack of datasets that can be used to pre-train language models (LMs) to be aware of common table operations, such as aggregating a column or comparing tuples. To bridge this gap, in this paper we introduce PASTA, a novel state-of-the-art framework for table-based fact verification via pre-training with synthesized sentence-table cloze questions. In particular, we design six types of common sentence-table cloze tasks, including Filter, Aggregation, Superlative, Comparative, Ordinal, and Unique, based on which we synthesize a large corpus consisting of 1.2 million sentence-table pairs from WikiTables. PASTA uses a recent pre-trained LM, DeBERTaV3, and further pretrains it on our corpus. Our experimental results show that PASTA achieves new state-of-the-art performance on two table-based fact verification benchmarks: TabFact and SEM-TAB-FACTS. In particular, on the complex set of TabFact, which contains multiple operations, PASTA largely outperforms the previous state of the art by 4.7 points (85.6% vs. 80.9%), and the gap between PASTA and human performance on the small TabFact test set is narrowed to just 1.5 points (90.6% vs. 92.1%).

最近的语言模型预培训进展取得了巨大的成功，通过利用大规模的非结构化文本数据。然而，由于没有大规模的高质量表格数据，在结构化的表格数据上应用预先培训仍然是一项挑战。在本文中，我们提出了Tapex，以表明通过在合成语料库上学习神经SQL执行程序来实现表预培训，这是通过自动合成可执行的SQL查询和执行输出来获得的。 Tapex通过引导语言模型来模仿SQL执行程序的不同，大规模和高质量的合成语料库来解决数据稀缺性挑战。我们在四个基准数据集中评估Tapex。实验结果表明，Tapex优于以前的表格预训练，并通过大幅度达到了新的最先进的结果。这包括改进弱监管的WikiSQL表示精度为89.5％（+ 2.3％），WikityQuestions表示精度为57.5％（+ 4.8％），SQA表示精度为74.5％（+ 3.5％）和Tabfact精度84.2％（+ 3.2％）。为了我们的知识，这是通过合成可执行程序利用表预培训的第一项工作，并在各种下游任务上实现新的最先进结果。

Structured tabular data exist across nearly all fields. Reasoning task over these data aims to answer questions or determine the truthiness of hypothesis sentences by understanding the semantic meaning of a table. While previous works have devoted significant efforts to the tabular reasoning task, they always assume there are sufficient labeled data. However, constructing reasoning samples over tables (and related text) is labor-intensive, especially when the reasoning process is complex. When labeled data is insufficient, the performance of models will suffer an unendurable decline. In this paper, we propose a unified framework for unsupervised complex tabular reasoning (UCTR), which generates sufficient and diverse synthetic data with complex logic for tabular reasoning tasks, assuming no human-annotated data at all. We first utilize a random sampling strategy to collect diverse programs of different types and execute them on tables based on a "Program-Executor" module. To bridge the gap between the programs and natural language sentences, we design a powerful "NL-Generator" module to generate natural language sentences with complex logic from these programs. Since a table often occurs with its surrounding texts, we further propose novel "Table-to-Text" and "Text-to-Table" operators to handle joint table-text reasoning scenarios. This way, we can adequately exploit the unlabeled table resources to obtain a well-performed reasoning model under an unsupervised setting. Our experiments cover different tasks (question answering and fact verification) and different domains (general and specific), showing that our unsupervised methods can achieve at most 93% performance compared to supervised models. We also find that it can substantially boost the supervised performance in low-resourced domains as a data augmentation technique. Our code is available at https://github.com/leezythu/UCTR.

文本到SQL解析是一项必不可少且具有挑战性的任务。文本到SQL解析的目的是根据关系数据库提供的证据将自然语言（NL）问题转换为其相应的结构性查询语言（SQL）。来自数据库社区的早期文本到SQL解析系统取得了显着的进展，重度人类工程和用户与系统的互动的成本。近年来，深层神经网络通过神经生成模型显着提出了这项任务，该模型会自动学习从输入NL问题到输出SQL查询的映射功能。随后，大型的预训练的语言模型将文本到SQL解析任务的最新作品带到了一个新级别。在这项调查中，我们对文本到SQL解析的深度学习方法进行了全面的评论。首先，我们介绍了文本到SQL解析语料库，可以归类为单转和多转。其次，我们提供了预先训练的语言模型和现有文本解析方法的系统概述。第三，我们向读者展示了文本到SQL解析所面临的挑战，并探索了该领域的一些潜在未来方向。

表中的信息可能是文本的重要补充，使基于表的问题答案（QA）具有巨大的价值。处理表的内在复杂性通常会增加模型设计和数据注释的额外负担。在本文中，我们旨在以最少的注释工作开发一个简单的基于表的质量检查模型。由于基于表的质量检查需要问题和表之间的对齐方式以及在多个表元素上执行复杂推理的能力，因此我们提出了一种杂食性的预读方法，该方法既可以消耗自然数据，又提出了合成数据，以使模型具有这些各自的能力。具体而言，鉴于可免费获得的表，我们利用检索将它们与相关的自然句子配对，以进行掩盖预处理，并通过将SQL从表中进行转换为QA损失进行预处理而合成NL问题。我们在几次和完整的设置中都进行了广泛的实验，结果清楚地证明了模型omnitab的优势，最好的多任务方法分别实现了16.2％和2.7％的绝对增益，在128次和完整的设置中也获得了2.7％建立有关Wickitable Questions的最新最新。详细的消融和分析揭示了自然和合成数据的不同特征，从而阐明了杂食性预处理的未来方向。可以在https://github.com/jzbjyb/omnitab上获得代码，预读数据和预算模型。

在这项工作中，我们探索如何学习专用的语言模型，旨在学习从文本文件中学习关键词的丰富表示。我们在判别和生成设置中进行预训练变压器语言模型（LMS）的不同掩蔽策略。在歧视性设定中，我们引入了一种新的预训练目标 - 关键边界，用替换（kbir）infifiling，在使用Kbir预先训练的LM进行微调时显示出在Sota上的性能（F1中高达9.26点）的大量增益关键酶提取的任务。在生成设置中，我们为BART - 键盘介绍了一个新的预训练设置，可再现与CATSeq格式中的输入文本相关的关键字，而不是Denoised原始输入。这也导致在关键词中的性能（F1 @ M）中的性能（高达4.33点），用于关键正版生成。此外，我们还微调了在命名实体识别（ner），问题应答（qa），关系提取（重新），抽象摘要和达到与SOTA的可比性表现的预训练的语言模型，表明学习丰富的代表关键词确实有利于许多其他基本的NLP任务。

大型基于变压器的预训练的语言模型在各种知识密集的任务上取得了令人印象深刻的表现，并可以在其参数中捕获事实知识。我们认为，考虑到不断增长的知识和资源需求，在模型参数中存储大量知识是亚最佳选择。我们认为，更有效的替代方法是向模型提供对上下文相关的结构化知识的明确访问，并训练它以使用该知识。我们提出了LM核 - 实现这一目标的一般框架 - 允许从外部知识源对语言模型培训的\ textit {解耦}，并允许后者更新而不会影响已经训练的模型。实验结果表明，LM核心获得外部知识，在知识探索任务上的最先进的知识增强语言模型中实现了重要而强大的优于性能。可以有效处理知识更新；并在两个下游任务上表现良好。我们还提出了一个彻底的错误分析，突出了LM核的成功和失败。

学习捕获文本表对齐对于文本到SQL等任务至关重要。一个模型需要正确识别对列和值的自然语言引用，并在给定的数据库架构中将其扎根。在本文中，我们为文本到SQL提出了一个新颖的弱监督结构接地预处理框架（strug），可以有效地学习基于平行的文本表语料库来捕获文本表对齐。我们确定了一组新的预测任务：列接地，价值接地和列值映射，并利用它们为文本表编码预处理。此外，为了评估更现实的文本表对齐设置下的不同方法，我们基于蜘蛛dev设置的新评估集蜘蛛现实化，并明确提及已删除的列名，并采用八个现有的文本到SQL数据集以进行交叉 - 数据库评估。在所有设置中，Strug对Bert-Large都有显着改善。与现有的预训练方法（例如Grappa）相比，Strug在蜘蛛方面的性能相似，并且在更现实的集合上都优于所有基线。蜘蛛现实的数据集可从https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5205322获得。

我们研究了检查问题的事实，旨在识别给定索赔的真实性。具体而言，我们专注于事实提取和验证（发烧）及其伴随数据集的任务。该任务包括从维基百科检索相关文件（和句子）并验证文件中的信息是否支持或驳斥所索赔的索赔。此任务至关重要，可以是假新闻检测和医疗索赔验证等应用程序块。在本文中，我们以通过以结构化和全面的方式呈现文献来更好地了解任务的挑战。我们通过分析不同方法的技术视角并讨论发热数据集的性能结果，描述了所提出的方法，这是最熟悉的和正式结构化的数据集，就是事实提取和验证任务。我们还迄今为止迄今为止确定句子检索组件的有益损失函数的最大实验研究。我们的分析表明，采样负句对于提高性能并降低计算复杂性很重要。最后，我们描述了开放的问题和未来的挑战，我们激励了未来的任务研究。

Mathematical reasoning is a fundamental aspect of human intelligence and is applicable in various fields, including science, engineering, finance, and everyday life. The development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems capable of solving math problems and proving theorems has garnered significant interest in the fields of machine learning and natural language processing. For example, mathematics serves as a testbed for aspects of reasoning that are challenging for powerful deep learning models, driving new algorithmic and modeling advances. On the other hand, recent advances in large-scale neural language models have opened up new benchmarks and opportunities to use deep learning for mathematical reasoning. In this survey paper, we review the key tasks, datasets, and methods at the intersection of mathematical reasoning and deep learning over the past decade. We also evaluate existing benchmarks and methods, and discuss future research directions in this domain.

最近训练模型通过利用大规模文本语料库来改善神经网络的上下文表示能力，显着提高了各种NLP任务的性能。大型预培训语言模型也已应用于表语义解析的区域。然而，现有的预训练方法没有仔细探索问题与相应的数据库模式之间的明确互动关系，这是揭示其语义和结构对应的关键成分。此外，在架构接地背景下的问知表示学习在预训练目标中受到更少的关注。为了减轻这些问题，本文设计了两种新的预训练目标，将所需的归纳偏差将所需的归纳偏差施加到表前的学习表现-训练。我们进一步提出了一种模式感知课程学习方法来减轻噪声的影响，并以易于努力的方式从预训练数据中学习。我们通过在两个基准，蜘蛛和罢工中进行微调，评估我们预先接受训练的框架。结果表明，与各种基线相比，我们的预训练目标和课程的有效性。

Recent progress in pre-trained neural language models has significantly improved the performance of many natural language processing (NLP) tasks. In this paper we propose a new model architecture DeBERTa (Decoding-enhanced BERT with disentangled attention) that improves the BERT and RoBERTa models using two novel techniques. The first is the disentangled attention mechanism, where each word is represented using two vectors that encode its content and position, respectively, and the attention weights among words are computed using disentangled matrices on their contents and relative positions, respectively. Second, an enhanced mask decoder is used to incorporate absolute positions in the decoding layer to predict the masked tokens in model pre-training. In addition, a new virtual adversarial training method is used for fine-tuning to improve models' generalization. We show that these techniques significantly improve the efficiency of model pre-training and the performance of both natural language understand (NLU) and natural langauge generation (NLG) downstream tasks. Compared to RoBERTa-Large, a DeBERTa model trained on half of the training data performs consistently better on a wide range of NLP tasks, achieving improvements on MNLI by +0.9% (90.2% vs. 91.1%), on SQuAD v2.0 by +2.3% (88.4% vs. 90.7%) and RACE by +3.6% (83.2% vs. 86.8%). Notably, we scale up DeBERTa by training a larger version that consists of 48 Transform layers with 1.5 billion parameters. The significant performance boost makes the single DeBERTa model surpass the human performance on the SuperGLUE benchmark (Wang et al., 2019a) for the first time in terms of macro-average score (89.9 versus 89.8), and the ensemble DeBERTa model sits atop the SuperGLUE leaderboard as of January 6, 2021, outperforming the human baseline by a decent margin (90.3 versus 89.8). The pre-trained DeBERTa models and the source code were released at: https://github.com/microsoft/DeBERTa 1 .

与伯特（Bert）等语言模型相比，已证明知识增强语言表示的预培训模型在知识基础构建任务（即〜关系提取）中更有效。这些知识增强的语言模型将知识纳入预训练中，以生成实体或关系的表示。但是，现有方法通常用单独的嵌入表示每个实体。结果，这些方法难以代表播出的实体和大量参数，在其基础代币模型之上（即〜变压器），必须使用，并且可以处理的实体数量为由于内存限制，实践限制。此外，现有模型仍然难以同时代表实体和关系。为了解决这些问题，我们提出了一个新的预培训模型，该模型分别从图书中学习实体和关系的表示形式，并分别在文本中跨越跨度。通过使用SPAN模块有效地编码跨度，我们的模型可以代表实体及其关系，但所需的参数比现有模型更少。我们通过从Wikipedia中提取的知识图对我们的模型进行了预训练，并在广泛的监督和无监督的信息提取任务上进行了测试。结果表明，我们的模型比基线学习对实体和关系的表现更好，而在监督的设置中，微调我们的模型始终优于罗伯塔，并在信息提取任务上取得了竞争成果。

We introduce a new language representation model called BERT, which stands for Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers. Unlike recent language representation models (Peters et al., 2018a;Radford et al., 2018), BERT is designed to pretrain deep bidirectional representations from unlabeled text by jointly conditioning on both left and right context in all layers. As a result, the pre-trained BERT model can be finetuned with just one additional output layer to create state-of-the-art models for a wide range of tasks, such as question answering and language inference, without substantial taskspecific architecture modifications.BERT is conceptually simple and empirically powerful. It obtains new state-of-the-art results on eleven natural language processing tasks, including pushing the GLUE score to 80.5% (7.7% point absolute improvement), MultiNLI accuracy to 86.7% (4.6% absolute improvement), SQuAD v1.1 question answering Test F1 to 93.2 (1.5 point absolute improvement) and SQuAD v2.0 Test F1 to 83.1 (5.1 point absolute improvement).

Natural Language Generation (NLG) has improved exponentially in recent years thanks to the development of sequence-to-sequence deep learning technologies such as Transformer-based language models. This advancement has led to more fluent and coherent NLG, leading to improved development in downstream tasks such as abstractive summarization, dialogue generation and data-to-text generation. However, it is also apparent that deep learning based generation is prone to hallucinate unintended text, which degrades the system performance and fails to meet user expectations in many real-world scenarios. To address this issue, many studies have been presented in measuring and mitigating hallucinated texts, but these have never been reviewed in a comprehensive manner before. In this survey, we thus provide a broad overview of the research progress and challenges in the hallucination problem in NLG. The survey is organized into two parts: (1) a general overview of metrics, mitigation methods, and future directions; and (2) an overview of task-specific research progress on hallucinations in the following downstream tasks, namely abstractive summarization, dialogue generation, generative question answering, data-to-text generation, machine translation, and visual-language generation. This survey serves to facilitate collaborative efforts among researchers in tackling the challenge of hallucinated texts in NLG.

最近，在自动开放域对话框评估中应用预先接受训练的语言模型（PR-LM），有兴趣的兴趣。PR-LMS提供了满足多域评估挑战的有希望的方向。然而，不同PR-LMS对自动度量的性能的影响是不太理解的。本文审查了8种不同的PRM，并研究了三种不同对话评估基准的三种典型自动对话对话指标的影响。具体而言，我们分析PR-LMS的选择如何影响自动度量的性能。执行对每个度量的广泛相关分析以评估不同PR-LMS沿各种轴的影响，包括预训练目标，对话对话标准，模型规模和跨数据集鲁棒性。本研究有助于第一次全面评估不同PR-LMS对自动对话评估的影响。

我们介绍了一项对自然语言（NL）推理的人类通知，开放域和逻辑上复杂且多样的数据集，配备了一阶逻辑（fol）注释。对开本由1,435个示例（独特的结论）组成，每个示例与487组前提之一搭配，这些场所作为规则，可用于演绎理由，以理解每个结论的有效性。前提和结论的逻辑正确性是通过其平行注释来确保的，这些注释会自动由我们的FOL推理引擎验证。除了主要的NL推理任务外，对开本中的NL-FOL对自动构成了使用FOL作为逻辑形式的新的NL-FOL翻译数据集。我们对广泛的实验系统地评估了对中型语言模型（BERT，ROBERTA）进行微调的FOL推理能力，并且在大型语言模型（GPT-NEOX，OPT，OPT，GPT-3，Codex）上促成了很少的射击。对于NL-FOL翻译，我们尝试使用GPT-3和Codex。我们的结果表明，公开可用的最强大的大语言模型之一（LLM），GPT-3 Davinci，仅比随机结果略好，而在一部分集的一部分中，该模型尤其不好，并且在预测该模型方面尤其不好。纠正虚假和未知结论的真实价值。我们的数据集和代码可在https://github.com/yale-lily/folio上找到。

大型语言模型在各种任务上显示出令人印象深刻的几次结果。但是，当知识是此类结果的关键时，就像问题回答和事实检查之类的任务一样，似乎需要存储知识的大量参数计数。众所周知，检索增强模型可以在不需要多个参数的情况下在知识密集的任务上表现出色，但是目前尚不清楚它们是否在几个弹药设置中工作。在这项工作中，我们介绍了地图集，这是一个经过精心设计和预先训练的增强语言模型，能够通过很少的培训示例学习知识密集型任务。我们对包括MMLU，苏格兰短裙和归类等各种任务进行评估，并研究文档索引内容的影响，表明它可以很容易地进行更新。值得注意的是，在自然问题上仅使用64个示例在自然问题上达到超过42 \％的准确性，尽管参数少了50倍，但比540B参数模型的表现优于540b参数模型。

Transformers are widely used in NLP tasks. However, current approaches to leveraging transformers to understand language expose one weak spot: Number understanding. In some scenarios, numbers frequently occur, especially in semi-structured data like tables. But current approaches to rich-number tasks with transformer-based language models abandon or lose some of the numeracy information - e.g., breaking numbers into sub-word tokens - which leads to many number-related errors. In this paper, we propose the LUNA framework which improves the numerical reasoning and calculation capabilities of transformer-based language models. With the number plugin of NumTok and NumBed, LUNA represents each number as a whole to model input. With number pre-training, including regression loss and model distillation, LUNA bridges the gap between number and vocabulary embeddings. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work that explicitly injects numeracy capability into language models using Number Plugins. Besides evaluating toy models on toy tasks, we evaluate LUNA on three large-scale transformer models (RoBERTa, BERT, TabBERT) over three different downstream tasks (TATQA, TabFact, CrediTrans), and observe the performances of language models are constantly improved by LUNA. The augmented models also improve the official baseline of TAT-QA (EM: 50.15 -> 59.58) and achieve SOTA performance on CrediTrans (F1 = 86.17).

用于预培训语言模型的自我监督学习的核心包括预训练任务设计以及适当的数据增强。语言模型中的大多数数据增强都是独立于上下文的。最近在电子中提出了一个开创性的增强，并通过引入辅助生成网络（发电机）来实现最先进的性能，以产生用于培训主要辨别网络（鉴别者）的上下文化数据增强。然而，这种设计引入了发电机的额外计算成本，并且需要调整发电机和鉴别器之间的相对能力。在本文中，我们提出了一种自增强策略（SAS），其中单个网络用于审视以后的时期的培训常规预训练和上下文化数据增强。基本上，该策略消除了单独的发电机，并使用单个网络共同执行具有MLM（屏蔽语言建模）和RTD（替换令牌检测）头的两个预训练任务。它避免了寻找适当大小的发电机的挑战，这对于在电子中证明的性能至关重要，以及其随后的变体模型至关重要。此外，SAS是一项常规策略，可以与最近或将来的许多新技术无缝地结合，例如杜伯塔省的解除关注机制。我们的实验表明，SAS能够在具有相似或更少的计算成本中优于胶水任务中的电磁和其他最先进的模型。